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TIL The majority of Americans disagreed with interracial marriage until 1994

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Wk7PB TIL that between 5 and 6 million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar closed, and the entire Mediterranean Sea evaporated within 1000 years, leaving behind a salty desert.
oB5QE TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien orginally set out to just create a language. Elfish. He then figured that that language needed a history. That history needed a world etc. Which eventually led to him writing LOTR in said world.
8mA8 TIL a 2007 lawsuit against GM could have brought deadly ignition switch failures to light — but the case was not pursued since Wisconsin law limits liability to $350,000 per death. GM issued a recall 7 years later, and paid $1.475 billion in fines and settlements.
Ypp6W One cartographer has done the heavy lifting, and rail fans are pumped.
aJJN TIL Keynes literally suggested the government bury money and let the unemployed dig it up to eliminate unemployment.